Celebrating Ecuador’s Specialty Coffee Bean Heritage

Lush green mountain landscape with rolling hills, coffee plants in the foreground, large trees, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Explore the Magic of Ecuador

Ecuador invites you to immerse in its vibrant culture through indigenous markets, traditional handicrafts, colorful ancestral festivals, and ethnic diversity in music, dance, and cuisine, while exploring historic landscapes and architecture. This cultural richness is matched by exceptional natural productivity, with over 17,000 botanical species across the Andes, coast, and Amazon. A global leader in exporting cocoa, coffee, flowers, bananas, shrimp, and pitahaya, Ecuador shines in agrotourism with enchanting routes for coffee, cocoa, and flower experiences.

Showcasing Ecuadorian Coffee Excellence

Hidden Gems of Ecuador is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and celebrating the rich heritage, farmers, and coffee-growing regions of Ecuador. Based in Loja, we share stories from the farms, publish national updates for producers and international buyers, and highlight the cultural significance of Ecuadorian coffee. Our mission is to support Ecuadorian specialty coffee farmers by shareing the high quality of Ecuadorian coffee to the international specialty coffee community.

Ecuador's total annual coffee production today is estimated at 650,000 bags of which between 60 and 70 percent is Arabica and the balance is made up by Robusta.

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